SEVEN POINTS TO UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL, CONT.

            - Summary Resolution

The reality of a title transfer from natural to Eternal Israel is exceedingly important to the land controversy. It is all but obscured however by Eternal Israel’s invisibility and the otherwise obvious return of natural Jews back to the Promised Land. God’s present moving of Jews back to the Land appears to contradict any assertion of a “transfer.” 

“Doesn’t God’s return of the Jews to the Land in our times prove they hold the title to it? If the title has been transferred as you say, how do we make sense of the Jews’ return? Why would God bring them back to the Promised Land if they don’t have title in His eyes? Besides, what about all the promises of Israel’s restoration?”

I will speak to these questions in points 6 and 7. For now, let me just underscore: since returning from captivity in BC 538, mortal Israel has never recovered the bounds awarded under Moses (never mind the complete Promised Land) nor reoccupied the Land as a sovereign, independent Abrahamic kingdom. Even now, after decades of movement and re-occupation, the Jews’ remain at a frozen stalemate with the rest of the world over their sovereignty in the Land. There is a reason for this.

The following points in the form of a resolution put the land inheritance issue into focus and lead it to a conclusion:

Whereas the Abrahamic land inheritance is an everlasting possession, yet:

1.      Abraham himself is a promised recipient of the Land but has not received it;

2.      the Exodus 34 bounds promised to Israel did not reach those promised to Abraham and could do so only conditionally;

3.      Israel’s inheritance was conditioned on their lineal purity and their performance under the Mosaic Covenant—a purity since lost and a performance prophesied to fail;

4.      since their original captivity, northern Israel’s bloodline has been put into irresolvable dispute and prevents restoration of the tribal bounds;

5.      since their original captivity, Jewish occupation has been subjected to cycles of returns and ejections under the Times of the Gentiles, a dispensation still in force;

            - Eternal Israel Still Waits

The complete evidence points to Eternal Israel as the true heirs of the Promised Land. But because no one sees Eternal Israel for who they are, no one thinks of the Promised Land as having any relevance to them.

As noted before, Eternal Israel has never had opportunity to receive the Land because the time for their revelation has not come. Through the centuries, they have had to live as sojourners in the earth, having now “no continuing city” under the world systems—very much like their natural counterparts in the diaspora.

To this day the bodies of Eternal Israel sleep in the ground while from paradise, together with Abraham, they await their resurrection to possess the Land. Their inheritance will not be established until the Times of the Gentiles are over, at which time, they will return in conjunction with Christ (gathered “from the four winds of heaven”), and the Land will pass to them.

At that time, the glorified heirs will not be counted according to their seed of natural origin. Most of them will have come from the original Jewish line, including Abraham, the patriarchs and all the elect from among Israel past and present. But Eternal Israelites of various other origins will also inherit the Land, including reborn former Arabs, Assyrians, Egyptians, Samaritans and even Philistines (Palestinians)!

All these will share together in the heritage of New Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates—without regard for or memory of their former origins. At that time, the only lineage that will count for receiving a share in the Land inheritance is spiritual lineage in Christ.